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Recipe: Lotus and burdock root salad
This healthy winter salad makes a great accompaniment to a hearty stew
Gobo (burdock) root is high in fiber and has an earthy flavor. It is thought to have first come to Japan as a Chinese medicinal herb several centuries ago. Lotus root, meanwhile, is also a winter vegetable, coming into season between October and March. It is part of New Year dishes throughout Japan, the holes in the root allowing Japanese to 'see a bright future'.
I suggest you serve the salad alongside wine-based meat stews (think stewed beef in demi-glace sauce).
Ingredients (for 4 people)
- 150 – 200 g lotus roots
- 100 g burdock roots
- 50 g kidney beans
- 2 and 1/2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon of miso (barley miso)
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon of pounded white sesame seeds
- 2 – 3 pinches of white sesame seeds
Fill a bowl with 500 ml of cold water, and add 1 – 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Peal the skin off the lotus roots, cut into 1 mm thick slices, then soak in the bowl for 10 minutes to remove any bitterness.
Fill a second bowl with 500 ml cold water, and add 1 – 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Wash the burdock roots with a brush, then cut it into long thin strips, shaving each root as though sharpening a pencil with a knife. Soak the roots in the water for 10 minutes, again to remove any bitterness.
Place a pan with 1 liter of cold water on high heat, and when it comes to boil, add a tablespoon of vinegar. Add the shaved burdock and boil for 1 minute, then add the sliced lotus roots and boil them together for another 1 minutes (2 minutes in total).
Drain then and cool them down in a colander. Place a pan withe 500ml of cold water on a high heat. When it comes to boil, add a pinch of salt, boil the kidney beans for 2 minutes. Soak the kidney beans in a bowl of cold water till the kidney beans cool down to stop the color change. Once they cool down, slice them 2 mm thick diagonally. Place a bowl and mix the following ingredients to cook the dressing: 2 and 1/2 tablespoons of mayonnaise 1 teaspoon of miso (barley miso) 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon of pounded sesame seeds.
Add the lotus roots, burdock and kidney beans to the bowl of the dressing and mix the them entirely. Serve the salad with 2 – 3 pinches of sesame seeds on.
Recipe: Snow pea salad with black sesame dressing
Snow peas coated in a tangy, spicy dressing
Here's another dish that compliments the warmer weather. The peas provide the texture, while the dressing gives the dish it's flavor.
To prepare the dressing, use a suribachi (Japanese mortar) to grind the sesame seeds. It's also possible to do this in a food processor – just be sure not to overdo it. Ideally, you want to keep some of that rough texture.
If you feel the dressing is too strong, add another 100 g of snow peas (or until there's a good balance between the flavor of the peas and the dressing).
You can also use snap peas, which are thicker and rounder than snow peas but have much the same flavor.
Finally, the type of vinegar used for the dressing will determine how much sugar to add. Here, I chose grain vinegar and mixed in 1 tablespoon of sugar. If, however, you use rice vinegar you'll need to reduce the amount of sugar. Start with half a tablespoon and little by little add more until you're happy with the taste.
Ingredients (serves 4)
- 300 g of snow peas
- 3 tablespoons of finely chopped ginger (roughly 30 g)
- 2 tablespoons of black sesame seeds (half glazed)
- 3 tablespoons of grain vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon of doubanjiang (Chinese chilli bean paste)
- 2 tablespoons of sesame oil
Place a frying pan with 2 tablespoons of black sesame seeds on a low heat. Warm the seeds until they give off an aroma.
Now, grind the black sesame seeds in a suribachi or mortar.
Having done this, string the snow peas and wash them in a bowl of cold water.
Place the peas in a pot containing 1.5 – 2 liters of cold water on high heat and add 2 – 3 pinches of salt when it comes to the boil.
Boil the snow peas for 1.5 minutes. Spread them on a basket and allow them to cool until they reach room temperature.
Mix the ingredients of the dressing and then add the snow peas. Mix roughly, coat the snow peas evenly with the dressing and serve.
Recipe: Agedashi nasu
Agedashi nasu may look harmless enough, but each slice of eggplant comes packed with flavor.
A variation on the popular agedashi dofu, the principal ingredient in agedashi nasu is eggplant. In some ways, using eggplant is preferable to tofu as it soaks up much of the dashi's flavor. For those wanting to experiment further, try preparing mochi (rice cakes) or satoimo (taro root) in this way.
This dish is a good example of aburanuki, a technique by which hot water is poured on the ingredients in order to remove excess oil.
Various kinds of garnish will suit the dish. Select your favorite among grated ginger, dried bonito flakes, thinly sliced miyoga or chopped green onion.
Ingredients (serves 2 people)
- 170 – 180 g eggplant
- 100 ml of dashi soup
- 1.5 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon of mirin
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of ginger (grated)
- 200 ml of boiled water
First prepare the dashi-based stock. Mix the dashi soup, soy sauce, mirin and sugar in a pot and warm it on a low heat.
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, filling to a depth of roughly 3 cm. Place the pan on a medium heat.
Remove the calyx from the eggplant and cut it into half lengths.
Place each half on a cutting board skin up and slice the skin diagonally at 2 mm intervals. Each slit should be about the half thickness of the eggplant.
Now to quickly deep-fry the eggplant. Make sure that the oil temperature is 179 – 180℃. Remove the moisture from the eggplant with a paper towel then deep fry skin down for 1 minute. Turn over and cook the other side for the same length of time.
Once cooked, carefully remove the oil by draining the eggplant on a metal rack. Place all of the pieces in a colander and pour 1 cup of the hot water over the eggplant to rinse away any remaining oil.
While they are still warm, place the slices of eggplant into a serving dish and drizzle on the dashi stock until it makes a pool around the vegetable. Garnish with the grated ginger and serve.
Recipe: Hayashi rice
Hayashi rice, or hashed beef in demi-glace sauce, is classic yoshoku. But what is the origin of the recipe?
Based on European dishes introduced by visitors to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji eras, yoshoku is Japanese-style western food. At that time authentic ingredients were hard to come by. As a result, Japanese chefs replaced certain ingredients or rethought the recipes, resulting in dishes know today as Japanese curry, hayashi rice, pork cutlets, omrice, Hamberg steak, etc.
As Japanese comfort food goes, hayashi rice is up there with indigenous dishes such as niku jaga. Typically, recipes call for strips of beef and sliced onion cooked in a thick sauce of red wine and demi-glace. Here, I've added shimeji mushrooms for added flavor.
The recipe's exact origins are unclear. Some say that hashed beef was introduced by visitors to Japan, and the name evolved first into haishi, and then into hayashi. An alternative history has Yuteki Hayashi, founder of the Maruzen chain of bookstores, inventing the dish. According to this version, the dish is named after him.
No matter where the recipe originates, it is today a staple of Japanese home cooking.
Ingredients (serves 8 – 10)
- 500 g of onion
- 300 g of thinly sliced beef
- 180 g of shimeji mushrooms
- 2 pinches of salt
- 2 pinches of black pepper
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
- 50 ml of red wine
- 580 g of demi-glace sauce
- 2 tablespoons of tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
- 1 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 tablespoon tonkatsu sauce
First, cut the beef into bite size pieces and season with 2 pinches of salt and black pepper. Slice the onion (with the grain) into pieces 1.5 cm wide and remove the roots of the shimeji. Tear the mushrooms into small pieces.
Warm 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a frying pan on medium-high and sauté the beef until browned. Next, move the beef to a casserole dish and pour in 50 ml red wine.
Add the demi-glace sauce and 1 and 1/2 cups of cold water to the casserole dish. Warm on a medium heat. Once it has come to the boil, stew for 20 minutes on a low heat with the lid on.
While you're waiting for the beef, prepare the onion and the mushrooms. Add 1 table spoon of vegetable oil to the frying pan, warm on high heat, then sauté the onion. When the onions start to soften, add the mushrooms and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Add the sautéd onions and mushrooms to the casserole and stew it for another 20 minutes.
Mix the 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, tablespoon of soy sauce, tablespoon of sugar and tablespoon of tonkatsu sauce in a small bowl, then pour the mixture into the casserole dish.
Stew for another 10 minutes. Check the taste and adjust the flavor with the salt and pepper.
Serve with rice and pickles.
Recipe: Basil no tempura (basil tempura)
Dried shrimp and basil in a delicate tempura batter.
Basil works remarkably well in tempura. Here, the herb is combined with a handful of dried shrimp which adds some weight as well as texture to the dish.
When you mix the basil, tempura powder and ice water, be careful not to mix them for too long. There should still be pockets of dry powder in the mixture. In order to prevent the leaves from separating in the oil, hold the ingredients with the chopsticks until the outside of the ingredients become solid for 10 seconds.
As soon as you find the tempura are crispy, take them out of the oil. Deep frying for too long will kill the aroma of the basil.
This dish pairs well with a dry white wine like chardonnay or a sake such as Tateyama Junmai Ginjo.
Ingredients (for 2 people)
- 25 g of fresh basil (leaves and buds)
- 2 – 3 tablespoons of sakuraebi (dried shrimp)
- 3 – 3.5 tablespoons of tempura powder
- 2 tablespoons of ice water
Wash the basil leaves, shake off any water and place them in a bowl. Add the dried shrimp.
Gently sprinkle the tempura powder over the ingredients and add ice water. Mix roughly so that the ingredients will hold together in the cooking oil.
Place a deep-frying dish containing 2 – 3 cm vegetable oil on a medium high gas and heat it to 170℃.
Next, separate the tempura ingredients into 5 – 6 portions. Deep-fry one side of each portion for about a minute. Once the ingredients become crispy, turn over and deep-fry for a further 30 seconds.
Remove the tempura from the oil and place on a paper towel so any oil drains away.
Sprinkle a pinch of salt and serve.
Recipe: Shiso pesto
It may surprise you, but green perilla is an excellent substitute for basil when making pesto.
The dish the world has come to know and love as Pesto alla Genovese is traditionally prepared with fresh basil, pine nuts in olive oil, garlic, and Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan cheese). In Italy, many recipes also call for the addition of Fiore Sardo cheese (Pecorino Sardo) to give the paste an even sharper, saltier flavor.
What you may not know is that fresh shiso leaves (also referred to as green perilla) can be used in place of basil. The result: a texture that's very similar to the original paste, but with a wilder, spicier flavor.
This particular recipe makes enough shiso paste for 6 – 7 servings. If possible, try to use wild rather than supermarket-bought shiso – this will guarantee maximum flavor. And like any vegetable dish, look for the freshest shiso leaves available.
Eat the pesto fresh over pasta or refrigerate for later (in which case, cover with a thin layer of olive oil to prevent discoloring).
Shiso paste (makes 6 – 7 servings)
- 120 ml of extra virgin olive oil
- 10 – 15 g of garlic (1 clove)
- 40 – 50 g of aojiso (green shiso, also known as ooba)
- 2 – 3 sheets of aojiso as a garnish
- 40 g of pine nuts
- 1 teaspoon of salt
Pasta (for 2 people)
- 160 g of spaghettini
- 4 – 5 tablespoons of aojiso paste (refer to the following method)
- 4 – 5 tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 – 3 tablespoons of the broth leftover after boiling the pasta
First prepare the aojiso paste. Place the pine nuts in a frying pan and roast them on a low heat for 3 – 4 minutes before allowing them to cool. Wash the aojiso and then remove any moisture with a paper towel. Next, remove the stems and then roughly tear the leaves into pieces.
Chop the garlic roughly, then place the pine nuts, aojiso, garlic, salt and olive oil in a bowl and blend with a hand mixer (e.g. Bamix) until the ingredients combine to form a paste.
If preparing the pesto ahead of time, pour the paste into a clean transparent container and seal the surface with 2 tablespoons of olive oil (not included on the ingredients list) to prevent discoloration.
Now for the pasta. Place a large saucepan with 2 liters of cold water on a high heat and bring it to the boil. Add 20 g of salt, then cook the spaghettini based on the particular pasta's instructions.
While cooking the spaghettini, prepare the aojiso sauce and garnish by pouring 4 – 5 tablespoons of aojiso paste and 4 – 5 tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese into a large bowl and mixing well.
Next comes the garnish. Slice 2 – 3 aojiso leaves into strips 1 mm thin and rinse them in a bowl of cold water for 2 – 3 minutes. Drain.
Once the spaghettini is cooked, drain and quickly add to the bowl with the aojiso pesto. Mix well and adjust the thickness of the sauce by adding a tablespoon or two of the water used to cook the pasta.
Plate the spaghettini, garnish and serve.
Recipe: Tebasaki no karaage (deep-fried chicken wings coated with soy sauce and sesame seeds)
Nagoya's contribution to the world's great bar snacks.
Tebasaki chicken – deep-fried chicken wings coated with soy sauce and coated in sesame seeds – is a dish closely associated with the city of Nagoya, where it is a popular form of otsumami (dish to be eaten while drinking). The wings are full of flavor, thanks to the ingredients of the tare: vinegar, soy, sake, mirin, a little sugar, garlic and ginger.
The key to the dish is deep frying the chicken twice. This gives the skin it's distinctive crispy texture.
Here we're using the traditional seasoning, but feel free to experiment. Cumin, roughly-grated red peppers, cayenne pepper or Japan Eats favorite yuzukosho will add even more flavor.
While usually eaten hot, they can also be refrigerated eaten the next day.
Ingredients (for 2 – 4 people)
- 10 chicken wings
- 2 – 3 pinches of salt and grated black pepper
- 3 – 4 tablespoons of potato starch
- Vegetable oil for deep-frying
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 2 table spoons of sake
- 2 tablespoons of mirin
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 tea spoon of vinegar (rice vinegar)
- 5 – 10 g of garlic (1 clove, crushed)
- 5 g of ginger (sliced)
- 2 – 3 tablespoons of white sesame seeds
- 2 – 3 pinches of roughly grated black pepper
First, remove the chicken wings from the refrigerator and bring them to room temperature.
While waiting, prepare the tare, or sauce. Place a small pan with all of the tare ingredients on a low heat and warm slowly. Maintain the level of heat and reduce for 5 minutes, during which you'll see small bubbles rising from the bottom of the pan. Pour the tare into a cooking tray and allow it to cool down naturally.
Next come the chicken wings. Remove any excess water with kitchen paper. Sprinkle 2 or 3 pinches of salt and grated black pepper evenly over both sides of the chicken wings and gently rub it into the chicken.
Now warm the vegetable oil in the deep-fryer on a medium heat until it reaches 160 – 165°C.
Coat the chicken wings with a thin, even layer of potato starch (pour the starch through a strainer) just before deep-frying.
Deep-fry the chicken wings in oil at 160 – 165°C for 5 minutes before removing and resting them for 3 – 4 minutes. Next, heat the oil to 175°C and deep-fry the chicken wings a second time for about a minute.
Once you remove the chicken wings from the oil, remove the excess oil carefully and place the wings into the cooking tray. Add the seasoning and mix well. Finally, coat the chicken with the tare using a teaspoon and serve. Preferably with a cold drink!
Recipe: Koumiyasai no somen (somen with aromatic herb salad)
When Japanese think summer, they think somen.
Somen are very thin noodles made from wheat flour. They are usually eaten cold during the summer months, often with a garnish of grated ginger, asatsuki chives and thinly sliced miyoga.
This recipe combines the fine texture of the noodles with the refreshing flavors of sudachi, a Japanese citrus grown in southern Japan, and yuzukosho, a condiment made from dried yuzu, green peppers and salt.
If you're having trouble sourcing the ingredients, you can substitute limes for the sudachi, and Yuzusco dressing for the yuzukosho.
For something completely different, try adding nampla and cilantro to give the dish a Thai flavor.
Ingredients (serves 4 people)
- 130 – 150 g cucumber
- 60 – 70 g miyoga (Japanese ginger)
- 130 g radish sprouts
- 12 sheets of shiso (green perilla)
- 8 tablespoons of sakuraebi (dried shrimp)
- 2 teaspoons yuzukosho
- 2 sudachi, cut in halves
- 200 g somen (50 g each)
- 400 – 600 ml mentsuyu (Japanese condiment traditionally poured over somen)
Fill a pot with water and boil. Once at the boil, add the somen and cook according to the instructions on the package. Next, drain the noodles using a fine colander or sieve. Rinse them in ice cold water and drain. Repeat several times, changing the water each time.
Now that all the starch has been removed from the somen, it's time to prepare the rest of the ingredients. Slice the cucumber diagonally into pieces 1 mm thick.
Cut the roots from 130 g of radish sprouts and slice the mioga in half lengthwise and then again into thin strips.
Slice the green shiso leaves into strips 1 – 2 mm in width. Rinse the cucumber, radish sprouts, mioga and shiso together in a bowl of iced water for between 1 and 2 minutes. Mix them well while in the water.
Now divide the noodles between four serving bowls. Drain the vegetables and heap them onto the somen. Try to do this as artfully as possible. Sprinkle dried shrimp evenly over the vegetables and gently pour the mentsuyu into the dish, trying not to crush the vegetable garnish.
Add a half-teaspoon of yuzukosho to the side of each dish. Slice the sudachi into halves and add one half to each bowl. Serve.
Recipe: Kizami-kombu to satumaage no nimono (stewed kizami-kombu)
Kombu is used for more than just dashi.
Whether it's as an ingredient in miso soup or as a wrapping for onigiri, seaweed is synonymous with Japanese cuisine. Kombu (kelp) is best known as one of the main ingredients in dashi, but is equally good served as part of salads or stews. It's loaded with umami, and therefore dishes in which kombu is an ingredient don't require added flavor. Kizami-kombu is dried kelp which is shredded to produce a stringy texture. Usually it's simmered with thinly sliced vegetables or used in asazuke (Japanese pickles) to add umami.
Satsuma-age (fried fish cakes) add volume to the stew. Made from ground fish, flour and seasoning, satsuma-age originate from southern Kyushu, but are found throughout Japan.
Thinly sliced deep-fried tofu pouches, shiitake, boiled edamame (soy beans) are also nice additions to this dish.
Ingredients (for 6 – 8 people)
- 25 g of kizami-kombu
- 80 g of carrot
- 2 sheets of satsuma-age (120 g)
- 400 ml of dashi soup
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
- 1.5 – 2 tablespoons of sugar
- 4 tablespoons of soy sauce
In 1 liter of cold water, rinse the kizami-kombu and soften for 5 minutes (refer to the instructions on the kizami-kombu's package) before draining.
Next, place the satsuma-age in a colander and pour 100 ml of hot water over the fish cakes to remove any excess oil.
Cut the carrot into 4 – 5 cm long square strips so that they resemble matchsticks
Place a saucepan with a tablespoon of vegetable oil on a medium heat, and sauté the carrot for 2 minutes. Add the kizami-kombu, mix well and sauté for 1 – 2 minutes. Add the satsuma-age and mix again.
Pour in 400 ml of dashi soup, 1.5 – 2 tablespoons of sugar and soy sauce. Turn the heat down low, simmer for 15 – 20 minutes with the lid on and serve.
Recipe: Hijiki no nimono (stewed hijiki)
This classic seaweed dish is simple and healthy. Add it to your next bento, or serve it alongside rice as a main meal.
Hijiki is a well known seaweed in Japan. There are two kinds: me-hijiki, (hijiki buds) which is relatively easy to prepare, and naga-hijiki, the stem of hijiki seaweed. Naga-hijiki takes longer to soften but has more texture.
Hijiki no nimono is considered to be "mother's home cooking" ("ofukuro no aji") and is rich in fiber, iron and calcium.
This dish usually contains carrots and deep-fried tofu pouches. Small pieces of chicken, shiitake mushrooms and edamame (boiled soy beans) can be added to the recipe.
This is a dish is good on the day it is prepared and even better the next.
Ingredients (For 6 – 8 people)
- 25 g of me hijiki (dry)
- 1 deep-fried tofu pouch
- 80 g of carrot
- 80 g of burdock roots
- 80 – 100 g of boiled soy beans
- 1/2 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of sake
- 1 tablespoon of mirin
- 3 and a half tablespoons of soy sauce
Fill a bowl with 1 liter of cold water and soak me hijiki for 15 – 20 minutes (refer to the me hijiki's package) before draining the seaweed.
Cut the carrot into rectangular strips 4 – 5 cm long and 2 mm x 2 mm wide.
Fill a small bowl with 500 ml of cold water and add 1 tablespoon of vinegar. Wash the burdock root and cut it into long thin strips, shaving it as though sharpening a pencil. Soak in the bowl of cold water to remove any bitterness and drain.
Pour 100 ml of hot water onto the deep fried tofu pouch and remove the excess oil. Cut into pieces 5 mm thin and 3 – 4 cm in length.
Place a pan on a medium heat and add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Add the carrot and burdock root, then sauté for 2 – 3 minutes. Add the me-hijiki, mix the ingredients well. Sauté for a minute more. Finally add the aburaage.
Add 200 ml of dashi soup,and turn the heat up to medium-high. Once it comes to the boil, turn the heat back down to medium-low and add 1/2 table spoon of sugar, 1 tablespoon of sake, 1 tablespoon of mirin and 3 and a half tablespoons of soy sauce.
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I never approached food as a social experience until I started dating Kyle. Now, I've always loved food, but it was never the centerpiece of any gathering I'd been a part of before. Not only that, but I would often find myself unable to eat in front of other people — a product of my fraught relationship with dieting when I was younger.
All of this changed with Kyle. Food is our thing. We love trying new recipes together and we have those we return to again and again. Plus, I never feel self-conscious eating with him. Even if we're stuffing our faces with a creamy cajun pasta dish.
But a lot of our mainstays — homemade pizzas, grilled chicken parmesan, white chicken chili with garlic bread, flank steak tacos (with beans and corn tortillas) — were not going to cut it on Whole30. If you can't tell, we're big on comfort food.
The transition has been easier with Kyle deployed (he'd never give up chocolate milk for 30 days), but 15 days in, I still find myself hankering for some comfort food. So, I've had to find some dishes that satisfying that craving while also being Whole30 compliant. I thought I'd share some of the recipes that have gotten me through so far.
Beware, I'm not a big fan of measurements and I adapt most recipes I see to my own tastes, but I'll do my best give an idea of how much of anything is going into these dishes.
Lamb Chops
Full disclosure: the best meal I ever had in my life was the porterhouse lamb chops at a restaurant called Little Zagreb in Bloomington, Indiana. My family will corroborate that I was having convulsions at the table. It was slightly indelicate.
So, I've been kind of wary of making lamb chops on my own, because I fear it will never live up to that experience. And while I have yet to recreate the Little Zagreb experience, this recipe was pretty dang satisfying all the same.
This is a recipe for one, but is pretty easily modified for more
- 1/4 c. olive oil
- 1 clove garlic (or 1/2 tbsp store-bought minced garlic)
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1 tbsp oregano
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1/2 lb. lamb shoulder chop
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 c. water
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- Pinch crushed red pepper
- Combine ingredients in a large plastic bag. Add lamb shoulder chop to bag and seal out the air. Make sure lamb is fully coated in marinade. Refrigerate for 8 hours.
- Heat oven to 350F.
- Heat olive oil in pan (preferably cast iron) over medium heat until hot, then removed lamb chop from bag and add to pan. Let sear on one side until crust is formed, about 4 minutes. Flip and sear the other side, about 3 minutes.
- Once the lamb is nicely seared, place lamb in the oven for about 2-3 minutes. If using cast iron skillet, there is no need to use a baking sheet. Remove from the oven and return skillet to stove.
- Remove lamb chop from the pan to let rest while returning the pan to medium heat. Add water, lemon juice and crushed red pepper to pan until sizzling, scraping up any cooked bits that have stuck to the pan. Pour sauce over lamb chop and serve.
This recipe saved my life on Day 10. SO GOOD.
I'm Irish, so I love potatoes in pretty much any form (but not potato salad because I cannot get down with mayonnaise, sorry Hartwigs). So the fact that potatoes are Whole30-compliant is a life-saver. They're also satisfying in a way that a plate full of protein and greener veggies aren't, so they help me from feeling hungry 2.5 seconds after eating dinner (don't worry, the greener veggies are still there).
Within the last week, I think I've perfected the art of the roasted potato — soft and slightly crispy without being burnt on one side (somehow that always used to happen).
- 4-6 mini golden or red-skin potatoes, roughly diced
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- Seasoning of choice (I like Cajun)
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Line baking sheet with aluminum foil and coat with (compliant) cooking spray (I use an organic canola oil spray from Aldi).
- Toss potatoes into pan and drizzle with olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste and, if desired, coat with any other seasonings you prefer. I like Cajun seasoning, so I just go to town with it. Toss all the ingredients together so potatoes are evenly coated.
- Bake for about 22 minutes or until potatoes are golden and slightly crispy.
All the joy of fries, none of the guilt. Also, adding a seasoning eliminates the need for ketchup, so get creative!
Hearty Vegetable Soup
I used to eat a lot of soup (when I was "dieting" obviously) but never found it particularly filling. Probably because I was eating it from a can that was approximately 2/3 broth and 1/3 everything else. Surprise! Soup can be filling if you load it up with the right ingredients. Plus, this recipe is a little spicy in the way a good chili is, but without the beans that are persona non grata on the Whole30.
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb ground meat of choice (I've used turkey and beef, and both are sensational)
- 1 medium-large onion, diced (I always use way more onion than called for, so you can use less if you like)
- 4 cloves garlic, minced (or 2-3 tbsp store-bought minced garlic)
- 4-6 mini potatoes (your choice), diced
- 1 c. carrots, diced
- 1 c. celery, diced
- 14 oz. crushed tomatoes
- 1 can diced tomatoes with green chiles
- 1 c. water
- 1-2 tbsp chili powder (I just shake this stuff in until it feels right)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- Heat olive oil in large pot over medium heat until hot. Add in onions and cook for about 2 minutes. Then add in garlic until fragrant, about another minute.
- Add meat of choice and cook until browned.
- Add in potatoes, carrots, celery, crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes/chiles and water. Mix together and let it come to a simmer.
- Once simmering, mix in chili powder, salt, pepper and tomatoes. Reduce heat, cover and let simmer for 30-40 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Stir occasionally.
The weather has been crazy, from deep cold to gross wind and rain — a typical April in Indiana. So this soup has been perfect for all of the days I've just wanted to sit inside (every day). Plus it's great as leftovers.
Those are just a few of my favorite recipes I've tried on the Whole30. I've got 15 more days to branch out, but I think I'll be returning to these a few more times before this thing is through.

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Benjamin Barker was the second son of Benjamin Barker Snr. (c.1720-1793) and younger brother of Thomas Barker (1769-1847). Benjamin West visited Bath in 1807 and commented that 'The two Barkers [are] very ingenious;... Benjamin, the younger brother, is the better landscape painter' (J. Farington, vol.VIII, 10 November 1807). Benjamin Barker II concentrated on landscape painting, and made sketching tours for the material for his pictures in North Wales, Yorkshire, Kent, Dorset and Devon between 1800 and 1815. He exhibited his first work at the British Institution in 1806, and exhibited there regularly until 1838, as well as at the Royal Academy.
A similar group of oil sketches by Benjamin Barker of Bath feature in the catalogue for the exhibition Inside Out: Historic Watercolour Drawings, Oil sketches and Paintings of Interiors and Exteriors 1770-1870, London, 2000, no. 22.
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Monday morning at 8:30 I officially took over in the office of the President.
At 7AM I was already doing interviews with members of the media in our brand-new atrium and front door. When the reporter asked me how I felt about taking over at Laurentian, all I could say was, "excited".
Excited because I have been on this campus for nearly a decade and have never seen anything like what I see today. A university that has grown into a world class institution. A global leader in mineral exploration. A campus on the front lines of indigenous education and reconciliation. An institution providing comprehensive education in French and English. New buildings, new faculty and staff, and a new energy. From our faculty to staff to students, Laurentian University is in a class of its own.
Last week I joined Science Minister Kirsty Duncan on a tour of our exceptional Clifford Fielding Research Innovation and Engineering building which is on track to open its doors in the spring. During the tour, the minister pulled me aside and said what makes Laurentian unique is the personal touch. It is clear, she says, in the spectacular design of the building which incorporates our natural geography. It is clear in the way faculty, who received hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants, put students first. It is clear in the way so many of you came out to greet her throughout her visit to our beautiful campus.
In the last decade I have been impressed again and again by the dedication of our staff and faculty to the good of our students and the communities we work in. In some cases that dedication is visible through spectacular projects like the $100 million Metal Earth mineral exploration research project. It is in the careful, disciplined work of the team leading the construction projects that have been reaching completion in the past year. In others, it is the quiet and largely unseen work of helping our students learn and succeed in spite of the challenges they face. I have met countless alumni and current students who talk about the importance that particular Laurentian faculty or staff members played in their success and, in some cases, survival.
Working together, there is nothing our university community cannot accomplish. For example, I am proud that we have been able to reach a tentative agreement with LUSU 10 months before the collective agreement expires. It took careful listening by the parties, creativity and a willingness to work together for everyone's benefit. I anticipate the deal will be ratified early next week.
In the coming months, I will make it a point to meet with as many people as I can. Our Executive team will be getting out of the Parker Building to meet in spaces across the university and we want to hear from all of you. I also hope that Linda Ambrose and I will meet many of you inside and outside the University as we validate the work of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee over the coming months.
Dominic Giroux always kept his door open for anyone who wanted to chat. I plan to keep that tradition alive. Please don't hesitate to reach out. Either in person, by email at email@example.com, or you can follow me on Twitter @pierrezundel.
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There are many plants that carry the common name of devil's claw, but this one deserves some special attention. Harpagophytum procumbens is a traditional medicine plant of the San people who live in the Kalahari Desert. Devil's Claw is a perennial desert plant. It is a warrior plant that specifically grows in ground that has been degraded and abused by overgrazing. It protects the ground from further assault by means of its fearsome seeds with their tenacious hooks from which it derived its name. The seeds hook onto the hoofs or mouths of grazing animals, which. quite immobilizes the hapless animals and they may become unable to carry on grazing - an effective deterrent in the plant's effort to protect fragile lands. Devils Claw produces not only a deep taproot, but also a tuberous secondary root, which becomes very swollen and fleshy. This is the part which the San collect for medicine. Back in the 1950 Western researchers found out about the remarkable properties of this plant and started to market it in the West. To cut an old and familiar tale short - today Devil's Claw is becoming rare. Of the 3 countries in which it is found, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, it is endangered in two. The tragedy is that untrained harvesters collect not just the tuber but also the root, thus killing the plant for good. Deserts are fragile environments and desert plants are particularly at risk. In recent years awareness regarding the damaging effects of unsustainable harvesting methods has grown considerably and there are now some efforts to grow and harvest this root sustainably.
Traditional healers have a far greater spectrum of use for this plant including anorexia, indigestion, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, gout, fevers, skin cancer, infectious diseases (including tuberculosis), allergies, osteoarthritis, fibrositis and rheumatism, being particularly effective in small joint diseases (Van Wyk and Gericke, 2000). Externally it is also used to wash wounds.
When taken on a regular daily basis, it has a subtle laxative effect. Small doses of the plant's root extract are used for menstrual cramps, while higher doses assist in expelling retained placentas. Devils Claw is also used as an analgesic after child birth and to keep the uterus contracted. Its actions on the digestive system are explained by its extreme bitterness. Its effects on the uterine system have been investigated and verified in laboratory studies.
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GREENSBURG — The St. Helena Police Jury has agreed to divide $100,000 in expected Louisiana Government Assistance Program funds between two building projects.
When the money arrives, jurors said, $70,000 would go toward construction of a road at the 5th Ward Recreation Park on La. 16, where a new community center/emergency shelter is planned.
The remaining $30,000 would go toward construction of the new Montpelier Town Hall, they said.
Other business the Police Jury considered during its meeting Tuesday included:
JAIL UPGRADE: Solar project engineer Morgan Watson reported the St. Helena Parish Jail retrofit is nearly complete.
Watson said the jail's solar hot water system is finished and the electrical system is expected to be installed and functional within a week or 10 days.
Watson said outside the meeting that the project ran over the estimated cost because of the inexperience of workers, who took longer than expected to complete the work.
The jury hired and trained workers for the job in the hope of helping residents gain skills and jobs in the solar-installation industry.
The jury has requested an additional $12,000 from the state Department of Natural Resources for completion of the job.
Watson said the project was funded with $72,000 in federal stimulus money and another $141,000 in grant funds left over from completed courthouse renovations.
MILLAGE RATES: The Police Jury approved millage rate increases that add $2,988 a year to the parish's annual property tax collections.
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Raven and Coyote Trail Loop is a 5 mile lightly trafficked loop trail located near Kirkland, Washington that features a great forest setting and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, trail running, and horses and is accessible year-round. Horses are also able to use this trail.
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10/3/2017 (Tuesday) -- In the Bridle Trails State Park, one may hike a loop without exactly following any of the three named ones. This is one of my self-designed loops. If it's not too hot and the trails inside the woods are too wet. The power-line trail is an ideal one for walking and running.


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- For detailed information, please consider checking out the article on our affiliated wiki, the wiki specifically dedicating to the Inkheart trilogy: Mortimer Folchart on Inkipedia.
|Mortimer "Mo" Folchart
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Mortimer "Mo" Folchart is one of the main characters in the Inkheart trilogy.
Early LifeEdit
Mo enjoyed reading aloud even as a young boy. He first discovered he was a Silvertongue when he was reading Tom Sawyer aloud to a friend and a dead cat suddenly appeared on the carpet. Later they noticed that a stuffed toy of Mo's was missing. They swore to each other to keep the incident secret. In his later life, he repeatedly tried reading aloud again in secret, without any listeners. He kept all of the things that came out except the snozzcumber from The BFG.
Meeting ResaEdit
Presumably while helping Elinor repair her many books, Mo met Resa, Elinor's niece, who happened to be visiting. They eventually married and had a daughter, Meggie. Things came out of the picture books, including a feather and a tiny shoe, which were put in Meggie's book box. Mo would read aloud to his immediate family every evng.
Reading InkheartEdit
When Mo bought another crate full of books from a secondhand bookshop, Inkheart was amongst them. Resa got Mo to read it to her that evening because she always liked tales of adventures. They enjoyed the story, since it was exciting, well written, and full of amazing creatures. Mo had just begun reading the seventh chapter when Basta, Dustfinger, and Capricorn appeared, standing in the doorway to the corridor outside the room. Resa was missing. Luckily, all three were dazed because they hadn't fully arrived in our world and Basta and Capricorn hadn't their full strength, and Mo managed to grab Basta's sword and drive the two away.
Mo searched the whole house, but Resa was nowhere to be seen. He put Meggie to bed, telling her that Resa had gone to sleep. He tried again and again to read Resa back out, careful not to let Meggie in the room, but the only things that came out was a glass man, who took the place of a mailman who was outside the house. Mo then realised that Meggie wasn't safe from the danger of transporting to the Inkworld anywhere, and vowed never to read again. He told Elinor that Resa went on "some stupid adventure" and never came back, and that the injury he got when he was smote by Capricorn's sword by climbing through a broken window.


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Social work is a profession for those with a spark of idealism, a belief in social justice, and a natural love of working with people. Social work offers the chance to work with and for people of all kinds: rich or poor, white or black, young or old, in hospitals, at home, or at work. For more information about "What is Social Work," our Student Handbook or our accreditation just follow the links.
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The K-State social work program celebrated 42 years of continuous accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education, or CSWE.
Faculty, friends and alumni from across the nation gathered in the K-State Student Union's Ballroom on April 2 to celebrate the social work program at K-State and honor Jacque Gibbons, associate professor, who will retire in May. Gibbons was honored for 34 years of teaching at K-State and providing many years of social work services to the citizens of Kansas.
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Insights On Sensible Products For Organic Coffee
There are just so advantages related to buying organic produce. Coffee isn't any exception to this particular, with organic coffee having its own share of benefits. Organic farmers, in my opinion, might actually be not able to agriculture: individuals who utilize sustainable farming methods without the need to turn to those pesticides, chemical fertilizers and other potentially harmful materials ought to be supported whenever you can.
Coffee is probably the most profitable cash crops in current times, therefore it sound right that many farmers may wish to protect their earnings by making use of strong pesticides and herbicides to detour pests and animals that take advantage of the coffee. Unfortunately, the same strong pesticides and herbicides utilized to rid insects and animals really are a danger to the health insurance and the health of our wildlife.
The first thing to remember is to never buy packs that have been located on the shelves-of the grocery and low shop-for the longest time. Check their roasting date and look at their packaging. If they both show significant "age," chances are they'll are generally not your choice. To be ensured of only purchasing the freshest, then get them coming from a local roaster. Perhaps, there is also a roaster online which will freshly roast your coffee purchase before shipping. Again, look into the roasting date simply to ensure.
For Fair Trade Coffee, importers are require to spend a nominal amount tariff of $1.26 per pound no matter world selling price. With the world market price of coffee in an historical low, this ensures that farmers receive enough money to realize a considerable living wage. Sadly, even though world coffee prices decrease, many large coffee companies still charge consumers a similar price and merely pocket the real difference. Because of this many farmers can't seem to maintain their livelihood on this income and wind up residing in poverty and debt.
FTOs produce a network of non-profit certifiers offering support for farmers and importers to effectively communicate and build lasting partnerships. Through these organizations, importers provide farmers with education for them to learn better farming techniques to increase yield, transition to organic farming, and increase worker safety. In addition, guide build local farming communities, provide tech support and benefit medical care. Importers promise to generate affordable credit open to farmer co-operatives and accept to pay for the fees linked to certification. Because of the global demand for this commodity, the Global Exchange Organization believes that coffee should be Fair Trade Certified [], Certified Organic and sustainable.


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I have been involved with the OCA since 2007, as a tutor on each of the different Photography modules, and as a formal assessor. As well as the OCA, I have taught at several other educational organizations at both FE and HE level. In 2012 my teaching experience was formally recognized when I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I studied Photography at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design (now part of the UCA) and completed a Masters degree in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport in 2008. The culmination of this programme was a book and an installation exploring our relationship to the subterranean environment. This is a strand of my broader interest in landscape photography as critical contemporary practice.
Since completing my BA in 2004, I have always worked on freelance commissions, mostly within the commercial sector, but also working with charities and other organizations. My particular interest nowadays is working within the fields of landscape, architecture and interior photography, and in addition to clients' websites and other promotional material, my work is published in leading consumer magazines.
In addition to being engaged with my own documentary projects and commercial work, I am particularly interested and keen to promote the history and theory associated with photography and lens-based media. I write extensively around the subject, contributing content regularly to contemporary photograph magazines such as Source (www.source.ie), such as reviews, essays and interviews with leading practitioners and industry professionals.


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2014 Catana 59
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This spacious and extremely luxurious Catana has in no way abandoned its sporting ambitions. Its floaters forge ahead in stormy seas. Its streamlined hulls, with the bulb-shaped section underneath the waterline and its headroom under the nacelle all guarantee that the boat will speed ahead in all conditions and sustain a remarkable level of stability in all weathers. This is "home, sweet home", yet the boat can sail at top speed, propelled by its 139 square metres of mainsail, 224 square metres of sails close-hauled and 252 square metres before the wind. Imagine yourself at the helm of an exceptional catamaran that is redefining the very idea of luxury on the high seas. Enjoy every moment, sailing where you want to go, whatever the weather conditions.
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Designer: Christophe Barreau & Frédéric Neuman
Warranty: 5 years
Keel: Other
Hull Shape: Catamaran
LOA: 69 ft 3 in
Beam: 34 ft 0 in
LWL: 65 ft 11 in
Minimum Draft: 6 ft 3 in
Maximum Draft: 11 ft 5 in
Displacement: 29983 kgs
Dry Weight: 23900 kgs
Engine Options
Engine Option 1: 2x 110 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (211 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (396 Gallons)
- 2 Winches for front sails and Spinnaker sheets
- 2 Aft beam winches for mainsail halyard, reefs and topping lift (1 electrical for mainsail halyard )
- 1 Aft beam winch for main sail sheets
- 2 Winches for daggerboard and furler lines
- 1 Winch on mast for foresail halyards
- Main sail
- Track on rigid bimini
- Genoa
- 2 Tracks on roof
- 1 Track on mast to trim the genoa halyard
- 1 Stopper in the cockpit for furler line
- Aft beam manœuvres
- 1 Triple stopper for luff reefing lines
- 3 Stoppers for tack reefing lines
- 1 Stopper for main sail line
- 1 Stopper for topping lift
- Daggerboards
- 2 Custom blocks in the daggerboard hole
- 2 Stoppers in the cockpit
- 2 Blocks boxes for manoeuvring from the cockpit:
- Aft and forward Blocks boxes equipped with Ø 90mm custom blocks
- Full width sliding door (3 sliding casements) in glass and anthracit aluminium with multiposition lock.
- Possibility to have the cockpit and the salon in a Fully "Open space" on the same floor level
- 3 Big storage in the aft beam seat (1 dedicated for the life raft)
- Cockpit area with composite seats (meal/relaxation convertible with storage) and 4 cockpit table with removable plate (can be customised)
- Structural bimini on roof level, with opening panel for ventilation and front sails visibility
- Pair of lacquered aluminium davits, with stoppers, lifting lines stainless steel shackles snap
- Cockpit cushions in Skaï
- Saloon seats meal/relaxation convertible with storage
- Cushions high-resilient foam, Suedine-covered on the file and Skaï on the armrests
- Salon / dining table, convertible
- 3 Armchair in aluminium/teak
- Numerous storage (optional wine cellar)
- Hanrail in each hull step
- LED lights with dimmer
Owner's Stateroom
- 2 Independent slatted bases, on hinges and stainless steel gas trut
- 2 Highly resilient foam mattresses, Vincenza covered
- Numerous storages with shelves and drawers under bunk
- LED lighting and reading lights above bed
- Dressing area with hanging locker drawers
- Vanity / Desk and separate light
- Sliding door for access to the salon
- Large moulded bathroom
- Shower stall with resin grating and built-in seat, ceramic seals mixer and Plexiglas door
- Double wash basins on sandwich resin countertop
- Mixer tap with ceramic seals for cold and hot fresh water
- Numerous storages for linen and toilet articles
- Area for washing machine
- Blinds on each portholes
- LED lights
- Moulded separate toilet
- Hand basin, mixer tap in ceramic seals for cold and hot fresh water with storage
- Electric head
- Cupboard of toilet
Guest Cabins
- 2 Single berths convertible into one double bunk in the aft cabin
- Double bunk in the front cabin with side access
- 2 Independent slatted bases, on hinges and stainless steel gas strut
- 2 Highly resilient foam mattresses, Vincenza covered
- Hanging locker and storages
- LED lighting and reading lights above bed
Guest Bathrooms
- Independent bathroom for each cabin with separate shower, single basin and toilet
- Resin grating in shower area
- Top storage over the basin with mirror and 220V outlet
- Mixer tap with ceramic seals for cold and hot fresh water
- LED lights
- Numerous storage lockers
- Resin and stainless steel sink (one and half sink) with resin cover/chopping board
- 160 L Stainless steel refrigerator with KOK system on hull exchanger, temp control and lighting
- Mixer Tap with ceramic seals for fresh and hot water
- 4 burners Gaz stove and gaz oven (catalytic cleaning)
- LED lights with dimmer
- 2 Volvo 110 CV diesel, with high performance insulation foam, engine controls panels on starboard pulpit including 2,5''screen.
- Electrical engines controls on starboard helm station
- 2 Propeller shaft assemblies on bronze stern brackets, with brakes
- 2 Folding four blades propellers
- 2 Fuel filters / Décantors
- 2 x 2 Kg Automatic fire extinguisher
- Free area for generator and water maker
- 3 Ceiling lights
- White paint finish under waterline
- Insulation foam (M1 fire protection) on engine bulkhead and above waterline
- 2 x 430 L Fuel tanks with gauge display on helm screen
- 2 Engine starting batteries, 120 Ah gel (maintenance free)
- 4 House batteries 120 Ah gel (maintenance free)
- Low charge alarm Buzzer for the house battery bank at chart table
- 80A Charger for the house batteries
- Numeric Ampmeter and voltmeter included in the LCD display
- 2 Alternators 115 A / 12 V for engine batteries
- 2 Extra Alternators 110 A / 24 V for the house battery bank with 3 level charger
- 1 x 220V Shore power outlet and 20m of extension cord
- At the Chart table 24V and 220V electrical panel, digital ampmeter and voltmeter, diesel/black water/fresh water gauge on LCD display and
navigation lights running feed back (tactile screen for monitoring)
- 12 V outlet at the chart table
- 10 x 220V inner outlet
- CD-TUNER + 2 inside speakers and 2 waterproof speakers in the cockpit
- 2 CATANA design GRP pulpits
- 2 GRP retractable seats (stand and seat positions) with stainless steel handrail on top and batyline cushions
- 2 Magnetic compasses with correction, light and protection cover
- 2 Stainless steel leather covered steering wheels
- 2 Balanced spade rudder mounted with JP3 self aligning bushers
- 1 Emergency tiller
- Helm system with vectran purchase and track with balls
Mast and Rigging
- White lacquered aluminium mast
- LED anchoring light
- Outlets for main sail, genoa, solent, spinnaker halyards and topping lift
- Combo steaming light and deck light
- Main sail luff batt-car system
- Lazy Jacks padeyes
- Double windvane on mast head
- White lacquered aluminium boom with spacers
- Reefing lines blocks
- White lacquered aluminium front beam
- White lacquered aluminium compression beam
- 1 Forestay in stainless steel rod (Genoa or Solent)
- 1 Inox rod furler
- 2 Upper shrouds in stranded stainless steel
- 2 Inner shrouds in stranded stainless steel
Running Rigging
- Running rigging controllable from the cockpit
- Mainsail halyard
- Mainsail sheeting system
- Genoa halyard (controllable at mast foot)
- Genoa sheets
- Genoa furler line
- Luff reefing lines
- Tack reefing lines
- Topping lift
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That Apple Inc. is targeting mobile payments is a foregone conclusion, but that doesn't mean banks must take a defensive approach.
The natural instinct for some is to put Apple in the same camp that many have put PayPal Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., that of the enemy. But banks that look for ways to leverage their direct access to credit and debit card holders and relationships with merchants — key ingredients for a scalable mobile payments system — stand a better chance of thriving when Apple goes to market.
"If we as a banking industry don't get our head around payments … we risk the chance of an Apple or Google or anybody else being a disrupter in the space and taking some of the volume, very similar to the way PayPal has become a disrupter in the industry," said Jeff Dennes, the director of online and mobile services at Huntington Bancshares Inc.
While payments analysts doubt Apple's ability to completely cut banks and existing payments networks like Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. out of the picture, they stress that Apple's influence must be taken into account. Apple could try to go it alone, creating a proprietary network and asking customers to link a checking account to iTunes, a setup similar to what eBay Inc.'s PayPal does. This would cause banks to lose revenue they would normally gain through card transactions, analysts said.
Apple's iTunes Store, which could serve as the mobile wallet used to store payment information on a consumer's payment-enabled device, generated net sales of $1.16 billion in its 2011 fiscal first quarter ending Dec. 25, according to Apple's earnings report.
"Apple's probably someone you want to work with than try to fend off," said Richard Doherty, the research director of Envisioneering Group market research firm in Seaford, N.Y. "They do touch tens of millions of Americans, hundreds of millions of people around the world."
Citing Doherty as its source, Bloomberg News this week reported that Apple is preparing to include near-field communication, or NFC, chips in coming versions of the iPhone and iPad. In an interview with American Banker this week, Doherty said he has talked with hardware makers and other manufacturers that work with Apple on accessories and other devices, in anticipation of Apple rolling out an NFC-based mobile payments system that would work with all devices that use the Cupertino, Calif., company's iOS mobile operating system, possibly this year.
For a mobile payments system based on NFC to take off, retailers must have payment terminals that are able to communicate with the chips inside of the phones. Getting merchants to upgrade their technology is tough enough during normal refresh cycles; convincing them to upgrade to a system that may only work with one player's system, as some have suggested Apple may do, could be more difficult.
"As a merchant … do you really want to be handcuffed to one type of phone?" said Nick Holland, a senior analyst with Yankee Group.
In many ways, the interests of banks and new entrants in the payments space are aligned.
Banks do not need to be technology providers to have a successful mobile payments strategy. For example, Bling Nation Ltd. has had many deployments where banks provide the merchant and consumer relationships and Bling Nation provides the underlying payment system.
The banks offer stickers with embedded payment chips, meant to be adhered to mobile phones; in its most recent deployments, the stickers simply say "Bling," excluding the bank's brand.
In taking the focus away from the bank's branding, Bling Nation says is subtly conveying to consumers that the payment system is bigger than any one bank. In this way, it can send the same message of reliability that Visa and MasterCard do by posting their brands in store windows and at the point of sale.
"Banks would like to make sure that people are confident that they can buy what they want and when they want it, and Apple has the same interest in making that as easy as possible," Doherty said.
Apple could then set its own pricing, but if its pricing is too high, merchant adoption will be slow, said Todd Ablowitz, the president of payments consulting firm Double Diamond Group in Centennial, Ohio.
"There are a lot of mouths to feed, but there are a lot of transactions to capture," Ablowitz said.
Apple could try to command a higher merchant fee by taking the "American Express approach, which says, 'Hey, we're worth more and you can pay a little more,' " Ablowitz said. "That might work, but I don't think it would adopt rapidly, ubiquitously, virally."
In the end, banks have a lot to gain by being willing to give pricing concessions to Apple in exchange for getting their payment card information directly located in Apple's mobile wallet service. Doing so could give those banks a first-mover advantage.
Payments companies that are already moving forward with their own mobile payments systems say the entrance of other players is not a bad thing.
MasterCard, which has been involved in a number of mobile payments trials around the world, is willing to work with new players, said Ed McLaughlin, the chief emerging payments officer at the Purchase, N.Y., company.
"I think across the industry there is a lot of technology that's coming to bear in the market," McLaughlin said. "We're looking to work with those organizations to make sure that we can make that successful."
Bill Gajda, the head of mobile at Visa Inc., said based on general discussions he has had with various players in the industry, including Apple and Google, he believes future mobile wallet applications will be open in nature.
"They realize that the customer really wants the choice of what payment brands and what bank they put on this wallet just like you have these choices in your leather wallet today," Gajda said in an interview Friday.
An open system would allow for Visa and other payments brands and banks to "make the load experience, that payment experience and … resources around it as frictionless as possible," Gajda said.
Visa recently made available to its bank partners commercial specifications for using a mobile payments system that is based on microSD card technology from DeviceFidelity Inc. The service involves a consumer inserting the microSD card, which contains their card payment information, into a smartphone's external memory slot. In the case of the iPhone, a special case must be used because the phone does not have an external memory slot.
The approach differs from that of what Apple and other device manufacturers are planning to do in that it does not rely on embedded NFC chips.
Embedding NFC — the approach many predict Apple will take — is often viewed as a smarter method because it may require consumers to take fewer steps to set up their mobile wallet.
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Read any marriage book, and you will likely learn some variation of the following:
- Women need to talk.
- Men need alone time…in their "cave"
- Women need to discuss their feeeelings.
- Men are incapable of discussing feeeeelings.
- Women need "face-to-face" time (talking together).
- Men need "side-by-side" time (doing an activity together).
Now, I say the following with tremendous respect and love and affection and admiration for my beloved:
My husband is such a woman.
(It's OK. He already knows it. I'm not saying anything he hasn't already heard a million times.)
We defy every marriage book out there. We have assumed the exact opposite marriage roles – at least as far as relational interaction goes.
I'm the one who needs the cave. He needs to talk. I have no immediate opinion about my feelings on any given subject. He still wants to know, and will badger me until I
make up something tell him what he wants to hear. My ideal together-time involves sitting together and watching TV. His ideal time is talking endlessly without taking a breath.
We're so screwed up.
But here's the thing. I have little people talking to me all day long. All. Day. Long. They don't shut up. And frequently, they all talk to me at the same time. I've seriously considered changing my name, because "Mom/Mommy/Mama/MOOOOOMMM!" isn't so much working for me. Mama just wants a little piece of quiet.
When all the precious little people are tucked quietly in their beds, and I drag my weary body and exhausted mind down the stairs to sit on the couch, I just want to sit. I don't want to talk. I want quiet.
But my beloved…my dear, sweet beloved…he loves me so much that he wants to know what I'm thinking. What I'm feeeeeling. He wants to connect.
I just want quiet.
And a cave. A nice, quiet, dark, peaceful cave. With a nice, big, comfy couch. And a nice, warm blanket.
So we have a little conflict. We're working on it. We've been working on it for about 11 of our 14 years of marriage.
(Meghan just turned 11. You connect the dots.)
(I fully realize that many, many, many women would kill for a husband who wants to invade her world and talk about feelings and thoughts. I don't take it for granted – really. I'm crazy about him. I'm just saying that my husband's wonderful, warm, loving soul does not always mesh with my cold, insecure, introverted world. That's all.)
Last weekend, the five of us headed in different directions: Meghan went to a preteen retreat with the church, Michael and Griffin went to visit his parents, and Nathan and I stayed home.
(Nathan was supposed to go with Michael while Griffin and I had "Mommy and Griffin Time" – which he desperately needs every once in a while, being the confused middle child and all – but Nathan came down with strep throat, so we had to rearrange our plans…blah, blah, blah…so there ya go.)
Nathan and I took full advantage of sick time, which in my world translates to TV and pajamas. 'Cause he was sick, which requires low stimulation and comfortable clothes. I put him to bed early – because he was sick, of course! – took a long, hot shower, put on my fuzzy pajamas, cuddled up in a big, comfy chair with a nice, warm blanket, and settled in front of the TV for some nice, quiet channel surfing.
And no talking. Nothing but blissful, peaceful silence – and brainless TV, including The Singing Bee which, OH MY WORD, was so addicting. And then there was What Not To Wear, which made me question every article of clothing in my closet. I stayed up way too late, but my inner introvert was so happy. Oh so happy.
By Saturday afternoon, Nathan no longer had a fever and a sore throat. But technically, he was sick, so we had a nice, quiet, relaxing time at home. I did some more cleaning out (in my pajamas), and later in the day, we did venture out to get new shoes for him (because his shoes that I bought in August were TWO SIZES TOO SMALL). But mostly, a relaxing day. With minimal talking.
Nathan strongly favors Michael in his need to fill small chasms of silence with meaningless verbage – a fact that ironically drives Michael bananas – but Nathan can be adequately distracted with a beautiful little gadget called a Leapster. Loooove the Leapster.
I'm such a great mom. Mom O'The Year, right here, folks.
We picked Meghan up at the church early Saturday evening, zipped her over to a birthday party, zipped through the drive-thru, zipped home for a quick dinner, then zipped Nathan up to bed. I still had a good two hours of blissful quiet left in the evening before Michael and Griffin came home.
Happy, happy Mama.
Fast forward to Sunday morning. Lots of noise. Lots of chaos. Lots of arguing. Lots of talking.
("Everybody just shut up and get ready to go worship the Lord!!!")
(Not what I actually said, but what I was certainly thinking.)
Grumpy, grumpy Mama.
It took me a little while to get out of the grumps.
Doing so was especially difficult when two TVs were on two different channels, drowning out my nice relaxing music from my iPod, while three energetic children were expressing their jubilation with great volume.
Oh, how I missed the piece of quiet.
Somehow I managed to make it through the afternoon without killing anyone – but I wasn't happy about it.
A visit from this little guy improved my mood significantly:
The lesson here? I am a textbook introvert, and I recharge my batteries with silent alone time. When I can't get quiet alone time, I get grumpy. When I have quiet alone time, and then my surroundings are no longer quiet nor alone, then I get grumpy.
Makes you want to spend time with me, huh?
As I sit here typing this, much joyful chaos and jubilant exclamations surround me. I'm trying to simultaneously tune it out and soak it in. Someday my house will be very, very quiet – and I'm certain I will miss all the noise. So I need to remind myself to suck it up, enjoy the cacophony…and get the little suckers in bed as soon as possible.


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